Directed by Vinay Shukla
A turbulent newsroom drama that intimately chronicles the working days of broadcast journalist Ravish Kumar as he navigates a spiraling world of truth and disinformation.
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Never knew cake cutting ceremonies could be this devastating.
हर जंग जीतने के लिए नहीं, सिर्फ इसलिए लड़ी जाती है, ताकि दुनिया को बताया जा सके, कोई था, जो लड़ रहा था !
- रवीश कुमार
there's a scene right in the middle of the film where Ravish engages a threatening caller by singing "Saare Jahaan Se Achha" and making the person on the other end of the phone call sing as well, that's gonna remain forever with me.
such a riveting and haunting documentary.
Portrait of a nation on fire
We need to chronicle the ongoings in India, that’s for sure, and Ravish Kumar is a good lens to see it through; I just don’t think this documentary serves that purpose. It’s a lot of discontinuous news footage, lacking in structure and something that feels put together for the catharsis of our tired collective. Quite confusing, I would think, if you aren’t already a frustrated and resigned follower of Indian politics up-to-speed with the puerile lingo that’s become the 23rd official language of the country now.
Few content creators (fiction and non fiction) have learnt to channel this into critical thought, so mostly we end up with social media rants and dinner-table angst cut copy pasted for screen which is a shame because Indian politics — though impossibly complex — is urgent and reflective of a larger global shift. Some pause and structure could have rendered this more impactful.
"Not all battles are fought for victory.
Some are fought to just tell the world,
That someone was there on the battlefield."
Life is a slow suicide and it’s happening to every intellectual - cried, scattered and moved.
"11 ghante ka safar 6 ghante ka rahe jayega. 5 ghanta pahele pauchke Meerut se Prayagraj aap kya karenge kam se kam aap yeh bhi bataiye."
~ Lord Ravish Kumar
It's funny watching a guy who practices this type of C grade journalism lecture others about 'sold-out media' and declining journalistic standards. Ravish Kumar is the same guy who delivers speech on women's empowerment during the day and lurks around adult Tg groups looking for lēaked links at night.
Let me share some examples about what journalism looked like before Adani acquired NDTV and how unbiased Ravish Kumar was -
Example 1 • Example 2 • Example 3 • Example 4 • Example 5
So what do these examples prove?…
Freedom of speech ain’t a piece of cake
☆"Our job is to ask the most difficult questions to those in power."☆
Coming to public television at a timely moment – as fascist Hindu nationalists debate changing India's name to Bharat to further denigrate anyone not of one specific ethnicity or religion – Vinay Shukla follows one chaotic newsroom in his country and the heralded broadcast journalist Ravish Kumar as he fights disinformation and government overreach. Shukla's film While We Watched uses a vérité approach for a similar frenetic environment, for better or for worse, but news (and adrenaline) junkies might love it.
Thanks to the PBS program POV, you can view this film for free at this link for a limited time. Your support helps bring these films…
While we watched, Journalism in the country has lost its integrity.People who are honest have been persecuted.The wealth disparity has increased.Human development has deteriorated.Rate of unemployment has reached it's peak.Prevalence of gender-based violence has risen.The country continues to face prejudice based on caste and religion.Proliferation of false information and political polarisation have increased.Corruption has taken over and Democracy has failed.
Earlier this year, Indian news network NDTV -- one of the only remaining mainstream media channels in the country that raised questions against its government -- was acquired by the country's top oligarch, the Adani Group. An open supporter and old friend of the country's prime minister, Gautam Adani's acquisition further raised doubts about the state's crackdown on freedom of speech and expression, manifested by disqualification of opposition MPs and wide crackdown on dissenters as well as dissidents. Following the acquisition, one of the country's most talked about senior journalists resigned from the news channel. Vinay Shukla's poignant new documentary tells the story of that one journalist.
The 92-minute documentary starts with Ravish Kumar walking into an abandoned floor with…
